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Marcasite ps. After Pyrrhotite on Sphalerite (Mullane Coll.)
- Herja Mine (Kisbanya), Baia Mare, Maramures Co., Romania
- Miniature, 4.2 x 3.5 x 2.2 cm
- Start Time: 03/16/2009 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 03/26/2009 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
An OLD-TIME, showy pseudomorph and combination specimen from a CLASSIC and famous locality - Kisbanya or the Herja Mine of Romania. Rust-brown marcasite pseudomorphs jackstraw-layered, tabular pyrrhotite crystals, which jauntily rest in a matrix of lustrous, black sphalerite. This fine old pseudo is from the Mullane Collection and comes with an Anton Berger label, well-known Austrian mineral dealers from the 1920s-1950s.